For your consideration this lot includes Vintage Law Books (8) from the personal library of Willam A. Clark Sr., circa 1882 to 1922. William A. Clark Sr. was an American entrepreneur, involved with mining, banking, and railroads, as well as a politician, and was known as one of the three famous "Copper Kings", along with Marcus Daly and F. Augustus Heinze. Included are "Desty's Federal Procedure Ninth Edition Secs, 1-759 (two volumes), 1899; "Desty's Federal Procedure Rules Index", 1889; "American Criminal Law Desty", 1882; "Code Of Civil Procedure Newmark", 1889; "The Law of Evidence, California Hillyer", 1903; "Montana Constitution Codes and Statutes Sanders' Edition", 1895; and, "Report And Official Opinions Of Attorney General Montana 1920-1922 Rankin", 1922. Wellington D. Rankin was Montana Attorney General from 1920 to 1924 after which he was appointed to the Montana Supreme Court, a position he resigned from in 1925 after accepting an appointment from President Coolidge as U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, a position he held until 1934. Rankin's older sister Jeannette, was the first woman ever elected to the US Congress. These are excellent resource books that outline jurisprudence during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in both Montana and the United States. The books are in amazingly well preserved condition, leather bound gold gilt hardcovers exhibit wear, some staining, some books are still labeled W. A. Clark on the spine. Intact pages exhibit age tanning. Smallest book measures 3.75"W x 6"L x 1.25"D, largest is 7.5"W x 10.25"L x 3"D. Combined weight is 17lb.